Pre Game Thoughts - "No Diggity, No Doubt"

[Katie]

Okay.. so can i first say how EFFING excited I am about this game? ive been excited since oh... MP finale. hahaha.

I have lots of thoughts really. Mostly im just nervous as all hell to meet my tribemates and slowly learn who else is in the game.

Maybe later ill write out who i think is in, who might be in, and who wont be in. One day i got so bored in class so i started making a Yes/No/Maybe list haha. There are certainly people I hope will be in the game, and people im dreading to meet up with... I know im such a huge dork. but hopefully thats why you love me right?

Sam (and Reb) thanks so much for all your work, up to this point and continuing in the game. I know its a ton of work, and we're all pretty obnoxious. Hopefully it'll be an outstanding game to watch.

Which is my only consolation.... i hope if im voted off prejury that i get to watch. I wonder if you'll have a forum for the people that didnt make it? my guess is yes.

Anyway. Ugh im SO ANXIOUS! this is the first of many, i imagine, nervous posts til friday... ill make some interesting things too just for your entertainment. and mine. (and so i can put off studying for my final which is saturday).

ridiculous

KTB.

[Katie]

Here it is, im so bored and i dont want to study for legal/ethical aspects sooo.. i paintshopped it up. Its my yes/no/maybe for potential players.

Katie's Predictions:



That being said, i think there could be some shocker players... those would include Ben, Connie, Brett, and Lew. Those people that I just couldnt see in the game, but I could see sam throwing in for drama fest 05-06.

[Katie]

Also, those predictions are based on gut feeling. Some people probably arent on there, or in the wrong category because i dont really know how they play or peoples thoughts about them. so the biggest thing im looking foward to right now is meeting my tribe, and winning the first channelge. obviously! winwinwin!

On the topic of winning.. this game is going to be harder, obviously. i was so good at challenged in MP b/c im more logical, like sam... and good at puzzles, and thinking quick. but with 25-40 people in the game, there are a lot more smarts than there were in MP. not that anyone in MP wasnt good - there were a ton of great challenge players there: Nikki, Patrick, Ben, Eric.... but there will be more for me. Harder to dominate i think.

Also, since sam knows how people play, and their ability levels (or lack there of) i think that'll make the tribes much more even.. instead of like in MP power houses cuzco and uros, compared to desana. Aycha ... the ultimate powerhouse. Stuff like that.

I am soo looking foward to the challenges. I remember for MP challenges id be already.. id have a piece of paper and pen ready, google, google image search open, a dictionary, anything like that that could help. always making sure the printer was ready to go b/c sometimes that helped me with some challenges. Those challenges actually challenged me.. unlike.. posting... random things for endless hours. which im not against, but sam's challenges are just so enjoyable! I cannot imagine what sam has up his sleave for us this time. I need to study about the past games, while i sort of followed them.. the alum forums became more of a hodge podge collection of pools, old games, pictures, random misspelled things from tom... ahhaha. you know though. yeah.

I SIMPLY cannot wait to meet my first tribe. My last Family/Transitions class is friday... so im gonna be like freaking out. maybe ill go maybe i wont. im still gonna get an A in that class haha... ill be so excited all day at work and class, to see my tribe. like you have no idea.
I hope they're fun, i hope they're great, i hope they dont carry a lot of grudges. I hope they arent as much of a flirt as i am.. hahaha. mostly though, i hope they are THIS excited to be in the game.

Who will they be? Who will the others be?

I dont know..

haha i really just wanted to use that icon.

okay enough jabbering next up... the allstars anticipation soundtrack.

[Katie]

new thought of the moment, since i cant sleep.

god i love having a confessional to just write, b/c really ive been thinking about this FOREVER!!

I wonder if any new people will be in it? i know sam had something about it in the advertisement on FGC, i think that'd be SO COOL. i can't imagine who would be in, but based on the caliber of sam's castings in the past im sure they'd be effing amazing!.

haha i feel like ive written so much. id write about it in my LJ but i cant b/c some of my lj friends applied for allstars.

although, i did make a sam only thing haha so i could, but its easier to write in here.. cool emoticons... way better. hahaha.

oh, and let it be known:

[Katie]

THE CONFESSIONAL DISCLAIMER

I figure i might as well add a disclaimer, to any of you who may read this once the game is over.

Regardless of if i go first, or make it to the final 2... in here, ill write a lot. And ill write what i feel or think at that time. I make lists, i make soundtracks, i write just about everything down. i write who i think i can trust, who i think i cant, who i know i cant. who is going to help me get further - and who isnt. and that my friends is what it comes down to.

A lot of people may take something i say personally, but this is a game, and what i write is how i feel about the game im playing, and the people that im interacting with.... i like best, that i can look back and be like omg i thought x about person y at this point in the game - look how it changed, or how it didnt.

So.. if i write... omfg i hate that fuckin bitch... 1. maybe i do hate you or 2. you pissed me off in the game. which is the more likely choice? 2 of course.

anyway, thats it.

[Rebnik]

You post a LOT

[Katie]

hahahahha yes i do. its nervous energy really. Ive been thinking about this game for a while, so its like ahhh! start start start.

Plus, i had 2 snow days.. so ive been snowed in for two days now... hahaha.

I have pretty good confessionals though... especially once the game starts. now its just random thoughts... waiting til friday.

[Katie]

what a weird time this is.

im assuming the people in the game know who they are.

ive gotten a handful of IMs.. mostly like.. "ugh it says he sent out emails, i didnt get one."

now, i wouldnt be one to ask... but dont IM me that, it makes me more suspicious that ill be seeing your face soon enough.

but then its like.. maybe they arent, but maybe they are...

monday i was just like dammit, maybe he's sending out 2nd round of invites, b/c i didnt get one either. BLAHBLAHBLAH. i figure, they lie, i lie. besides sam said to do it. so yeah

well THEN i just get this im... "Good luck in the game, you better win." im like what? they say.. they apparently aren't in the game, and hope i win. haha i said i wasnt. i made up some bullshit... i said i gave conditions on my application, that i would under no circumstances play with certain people.... and the person finished my sentence with ... so sam didnt cast you? i continue with my bullshitting. and they say "well im sorry but i cant see an allstars without you"

DAMN STRAIGHT YOU CANT B/C I AM SOOOO IN THIS GAME. no i didnt say that, but i kinda wanted to.

anyway, then he's like.. i heard this other person i was gonna cheer for didnt get in either. Maybe he really didnt get in... ive just tried to avoid it. i havent brought it up to anyone, but its been brought to me. i might have to spend less time online. its kinda getting on my nerves. LMAO.

now they're like "i wonder what sam's up to." i dont. im sure he's working his ass off to finish working on this game, and everyone else is doing what they are supposed to. denying acceptance. ALTHOUGH.. i wonder if this person is pretending he was in, so i'd be like "aww thanks ill win it just for you!" in which case he'd know i was in.

ooo this is a new twist... methinks this is it. im just bored really. and this person is giving me a good topic to discuss and get out more

im just doing what im supposed to.

some people are dumb.

its just kind of an awkward situation, b/c i dont want to lie about it. but i know i cant admit to being in the game. although im sure most people think im a lock to be in. which is why i made up the "condition on the application" bullshit. but what happens when they turn up on my tribe? in the game? i guess ill just be like, im gonna fucking follow the rules, you bitch. sam said to lie.

and as far as that goes, im sure some people will be tempted to cheat. i dont fucking care, im not gonna do it. it wouldnt feel real to me if i did. i may not have as much morality as eric but, to be in this game, is an honor. i want to get the best experience i can out of it.

fuck i hope im not first out. hahahah.

also, its so weird. after so many stupid fucking minis, and random conference calls, its so silent now. conversations are awkward.. its like so um listen to this song. or.. did you get snow today? SO WEIRD. b/c its been like OMFG IM SO NERVOUS FOR ALL STARS. now if you say that, its like you're in... so you cant really say that either.

it reminds me of sorority rush... at washington and lee the girls rush in the winter, the week right after christmas break. but to prevent any dirty rushing (telling a girl 'the house' wants her) is strictly against the rules. One of the things to prevent dirty rushing, is that sorority women cannot for any reason talk to freshman girls once they leave campus after finals before break. This continues through the rush process until they get there bids. Its a bizzarre week. b/c you'll have classes with freshman, that you've made friends with over the first semester, and you cant talk to them. you can say hi, thats it. campus is a strange place that week.

it is a strange week amongst sam's allstar hopefuls.

[Katie]

lol... id love to be on a tribe withone of these people that is parading the fact that they arent in the game, i think that'd be beautiful. although this person i figured would definately be in....

[Katie]

Discussion Question: Could the Mini Games we've played over the past month, affect all stars?

Answer: yes and no. i think it depends on the person. I hope that most will take those games for what they were, time fillers.

In reality, all of us that played, screwed over every other person in the game. for sure.

they were fun at first, then stressful. why stressful? b/c we knew we were getting closer to allstars. and why most say the games wont affect them, and say that they shouldnt affect the real game. they will.

were any new friendships formed through minis? yes.

did i meet a few people i might not have before? yes.

then comes up this situation... this person alligned with this person in more than one mini....they MUST be alligned now.

or... tyler is so controlling, he just had those minis to see who was alligned with who.

or...they were alligned with me, but switched sides -they cant be trusted.

or... or... or... we played more than 10 of these games, and they were filled with mostly sam's players. (Doesnt that sound like some medieval acting group?) anyway, will there be someone who will be like oh the mini players must be tight, lets go after them?

same with the conference calling... what impact will that have?

HERE IS MY HOPE... that his is a new fucking game, and we all start with a blank slate. will that happen? no way in hell. im going to be more open to new people, indeed i think ill be forced to to survive.but in the back of my mind, in the back of everyones mind.. is what they know about them. are they trustworthy? are they going to screw me over? are they close with so and so.

something i dont see happening very consistantly is game alliances. sure id stick with patrick. but the others, no. im looking for new people. i dont envision a solid paradise, wonderland, MP, or CC alliance. could it happen? yeah.

HOLY SHIT! what if our tribes are based on our original game. ill die.

its just like.. in all stars... when probst brings out the third tribe... and alica's says "game on." who or what will be that third tribe for this game.

whatever it is... GAME ON.

[Katie]

How could the tribes be set up???

well.. he could do it like this..

each tribe having 1 member from each season, 1 from sidestory/andes, plus 1 new.

he could do it by sex. ugh i need guys on my tribe. that'd suck.

he could just try and balance it out, i guess thats why he wanted to know our "friends/enemies" list.. but even then i dont think he could have a majority of one season on a tribe.

thats my best guess.

but how many players?

how many tribes?

how the hell is this all gonna come together??

so many questions, i cant wait to find out.

[Katie]

IM SO NERVOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 days til tribes!!!!

[Katie]

haha. someone last night who says they didnt get in (and to whom i said i didnt get in, based on my "conditions") said to me that they dont know anyone who has gotten in. NO SHIT you moron. again, the announcements say lie, and at least its good to know that everyone is.

this person said they wondered if this game was a mask for a 5th game before allstars. that'd actually be really cool, but it isnt.

people are silly.

GAME ON.

[Sam]

now they're like "i wonder what sam's up to." i dont. im sure he's working his ass off to finish working on this game, and everyone else is doing what they are supposed to. denying acceptance. ALTHOUGH.. i wonder if this person is pretending he was in, so i'd be like "aww thanks ill win it just for you!" in which case he'd know i was in.

haha that's the most hilarious thing I've read like ever cause it's like so true (the first part) lol. <3

[Katie]

tribes tomorrow. im so excited! and now back to more of a yay excited than an aaaaaghhh im afraid excited. yayayayayay!

4pm.. thats better really i was afraid id check it, find out, then have to run to work and then class thinking about it..

but NOW i find out after work. i dont know if im going to my last class anyway, i need to study for my legal/ethical aspects final. so that means, chatting with my new tribemates. OMG I HOPE I LOVE THEM and studying. mostly studying obviously..

yay for sam! and thanks for all that you've done for us.

[Katie]

lets go allstars!!!!

[Katie]

*is dying*

[Katie]

haha, i looked back at my initial predictions of who would be in the game, i did pretty well! woo!

[Patrick]

baby yous a dime <3

[Rebnik]

I remember reading all this the first few days of the game and was like "WOW" o.o

[Katie]

THE CONFESSIONAL DISCLAIMER

I figure i might as well add a disclaimer, to any of you who may read this once the game is over.

Regardless of if i go first, or make it to the final 2... in here, ill write a lot. And ill write what i feel or think at that time. I make lists, i make soundtracks, i write just about everything down. i write who i think i can trust, who i think i cant, who i know i cant. who is going to help me get further - and who isnt. and that my friends is what it comes down to.

A lot of people may take something i say personally, but this is a game, and what i write is how i feel about the game im playing, and the people that im interacting with.... i like best, that i can look back and be like omg i thought x about person y at this point in the game - look how it changed, or how it didnt.

So.. if i write... omfg i hate that fuckin bitch... 1. maybe i do hate you or 2. you pissed me off in the game. which is the more likely choice? 2 of course.

anyway, thats it.

haha. thats all very important. keep it in mind if you choose to explore my confessional.

ps. my player predictions were pretty good, no?

[Mark]

No wonder you're the confessional queen :-P

[Katie]

lol actually.. me and matto would compare confessional posts - he was right with me, so i imagine he has more. in which case we can be confessional king and queen. haha

[Matt O.]

I ended with like 1550+

Owned!

[Katie]

eat that banana matt.

[Matt O.]

or... we played more than 10 of these games, and they were filled with mostly sam's players. (Doesnt that sound like some medieval acting group?) anyway, will there be someone who will be like oh the mini players must be tight, lets go after them?

same with the conference calling... what impact will that have?

The mini and phone thing crossed my mind like a million times at the start of the game, I was glad Ovambo liked to do it as a group. I did keep my phone life secret from some people. If everyone knew I talked to Tyler and Katie and other people on the phone while they were in the game, we would've been easily voted out, rather than just seen as allies.

[Jamie]

Katie I love it! <3
I was the queen of the long winded and all encompassing confessionals, lol, not the most.

[Hectorina]

Can't wait to read more of your confessionals. Too bad we never got to meet in the game, I wonder if we would have alligned or turned on each other.

[Katie]

hector, can't you let go of this game? i mean its been months since you were kicked out. and no offense, but its kind of weird. i mean even the people that were voted out arent as obsessed as you are. you lost your privelege, and rightfully so. so why tempt sam with every chance you get? its REALLY weird. seriously. its time to move on. we're talking like near new years - ish is when you got kicked out. thats ALMOST FIVE MONTHS.

its time to move on.

[Ryan]

Is it possible to slap an IP ban on him?